Dpreview interview with EOS R Developers: We want to surprise and astonish you

DPreview sat down with Koji Yoshida, Manabu Kato, Shintaro Oshima, and Hironori Oishi all of which had a hand in the development of the EOS R camera.

There are some interesting takeaways from the articles, namely the fact that DLO data now exists inside each lens, which means the possibility exists for custom DLO profiles per lens instead of stock profiles.

"You can also use DLO without any problems," he said. Digital Lens Optimizer - Canon's name for digital lens corrections - previously required that the camera look up the data in a database, meaning that camera firmware needed to be updated to accommodate new lenses. It's now supplied in real time by the lens itself, so there's no need for a look-up step.

Also, the extra pins on the mount are for the control wheels and increased data bandwidth required (because of the DLO profiles) for EOS RF lenses.

This is an interesting point, and if Canon gets to the point of baking DLO adjustments into RAW files (if the user selects it to do so) then DLO can be a home run hit for Canon, as it generally moves as much imperfections as possible in the lenses.

The Canon group interviewed felt sure that with the new mount, and the ability to think more outside of the box that they have more things that they can do;

"It gives more structural freedom in terms of design, because it doesn't have a pentamirror", says Oishi. "I'm excited about improvements in Digic image processor and functions that create more value and make easier to use," says Yoshida. But it's optics specialist Kato who seems most enthused: "This is just the start of the system," he says, talking about F2.8 zooms and other possibilities, before settling on a broader-reaching point: "We want to surprise and astonish you, so please expect big things."

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